Walk into the Unknown

2014 | Biography

In the summer of 1960 a stranger to Britain flew from her native Switzerland to Gatwick. Her name was Ines Rothen. As a twenty-one-year-old au pair alone in the soot, grime and bombsites of London, she hoped only to find her feet, broaden her horizons and improve her English. She was an absolute beginner in a foreign capital at a time when television was a new thing, the Sunday Express was a broadsheet, abortion was illegal and some said the Beatles were crap. Her father expected her back in a year. Fifty-four years later a successful businesswoman in publishing, property development and a happily married mother booted up her computer and wrote her story. Herself a Londoner, she has recreated the world of the sixties and what came after, sharing the experience of Britain becoming familiar through the faces and friendships of one woman's relationships. Her name is Ines Rothen.

Ines C. Rothen (Author)